Decoding the Secrets of Eqyptian Hieroglyphs - SnagFilms

Topic History

Subtopic Ancient History

Decoding the Secrets

of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Course Guidebook

Professor Bob Brier

LIU Post

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Bob Brier, Ph.D.

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW LIU POST

Dr. Bob Brier, recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on mummies and Egyptology, is a Senior Research Fellow at LIU Post (formerly the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University). He earned his bachelor's degree from Hunter College and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Brier has twice been selected as a Fulbright Scholar and has received LIU's David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching in recognition of his achievements as a lecturer. He has served as director of the National Endowment for the Humanities' Egyptology Today program. In 1994, Dr. Brier became the first person in 2,000 years to mummify a human cadaver in the ancient Egyptian style. This research was the subject of a National Geographic television special, Mr. Mummy. Dr. Brier was also the host of TLC's series The Great Egyptians. Dr. Brier is the author of Ancient Egyptian Magic; Egyptian Mummies; Encyclopedia of Mummies; The Murder of Tutankhamen: A True Story;

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Daily Life in Ancient Egypt; Egyptomania; Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt; and numerous scholarly articles. Dr. Brier has taught two other Great Courses: The History of Ancient Egypt and Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Professor Biography.............................................................................i Scope..................................................................................................1

Lecture Guides

Lecture 1 Why Egypt Needed Hieroglyphs3

Lecture 2 The Ancient Egyptian Alphabet 11

Lecture 3 How a Language Becomes Lost17

Lecture 4 Napoleon in Egypt26

Lecture 5 Early Attempts to Decipher the Rosetta Stone34

Lecture 6 William Bankes and the Keys to Decipherment41

Lecture 7 Jean-Fran?ois Champollion Cracks the Code49

Lecture 8 Suffix Pronouns and the Hieroglyphs of Ptah57

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